Cartridge-reloading tool



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- 2Sheet-Sheet 1. 4 H. J. G-A LLUP. CARTRIDGE RELOY-ADING TOOL. I v No. 472,990. Patented Apr. 19, 1892.

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CARTRIDGE RELOADING TOOL.

N0. $32,990. PatentedfApr'lil9, 1892.

PATENT OFF ICE.

HENRY J. GALLUP, OF POQUETANUCK, CONNEGTICUT.

CARII'RIDGE-RELOADING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,990, dated April 19, 1892.

Application filed June 29, 1891.

its object the production of a serviceable,

powerful, and convenient tool at a moderate cost. My new form of tool is capable of per,- forming various servicessuch as, for example, removing the old prim er, reseating the new primer, resizing the open endof the cartridgeshell, measuring a sufiicient charge of powder, and delivering it into'said'shell and also forcing home the bullet or wad, as the case may be.

To explain more clearly my inventin,I have provided the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved reloading-tool; and Fig. 2, a similar view partly cut away to expose the internal arrangement of parts, the operating-handle being depressed as in the act of forcing out the old primer and 4 frame, to release said shell.

ramming home a new charge in theshell. Fig. 3 IS a View substantially like Fig. 2, but shows the operating-handle elevated and as in the act of forcing a new primer into its seat in the cartridge-head. Fig. 4 shows portions of the main frame and the sliding section seated thereon, showing the lever g, which supports the shell during the 'operation'of reloading, as swung around at right angles to said main Fig. 5 is an enlarged view, principally in section, of the parts shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 shows a portion of bed a with an opening a of taper-form.

In the drawings, the letter'a denotes the main frame or bedsection of my device, having its lower portion formed to slip-over the projecting edge of a table and provided with" a binding-screw, as b, bywhich said device may be securely clamped in a given position.

0 denotes a slide-block located and arranged to slide lengthwise on the bed-section, being held in proper position by. clips (2, which straddle said slide-block and are securedto the bed Serial No. 397L819- (Ilo model.)

by screws e. -A bar or plate e connects the clips d, and on this bar is a cup f, which serves as a receptacle for powder duringthe opera- 'tion ofdoadi'ng. Thebar e is provided with an opening which, when the said bar is in its rearmost position, as in Fig. 2, is coincident latter may rock slightly on its'fulcrum. The

outer end of lever g is bent upward around the end of the bed-section a and terminates in a beveled end that is in the path of a bandled bar h. The rear end of this bar is hinged to a lever 't', whose lower end is hinged to an extension of-the. bed-section a, the bar h be ing thus free to be moved longitudinally a limited distance and to be raised and lowered at its handle end. The lever 11 is connected near its middle with the slide-block c, and it will be-understood that when the bar h is moved longitudinally the slide-block is correspondingly moved. The front end" of the slide-block (right-hand end, as here shown) is formed with an upwardly-projecting stud k, whose upper portion for a-distance nearly equal to the length of the cartridge-shell is straight and of such diameter that it may fit.

snugly a shell placedthereon. Below this straight portion the stud k is tapered, as shown,s'o thatwhen the shell is forced downward on the stud the mou'thgof theshell may be slightly spread or expanded. Within stud k isa loosely-fitting pin Zr, whoselower end rests on the bottom wall of an inclined slot 10 out inthe bed-section a, the length of said slot being a'little more than the longitudinal movement of the slide-block. ,The length of pink is such that when -it rides up to the highest point of the inclined'slotv the upper end of said pin projects above the stud k a distance fully equal to the thickness of the cartridge-primer. Stud 7c and its sliding pin 1c are psed during the operations ofdecap-' ping and recapping ashell. When it is 'de-' checks the latter and forces it up into recess 72/, from which it drops when bar It is raised.

Said bar is then drawn forward-that is, to- I ward the right hand, as shown in Fig. 3,-

when pin 70 drops by gravity to the lowest polnt of the inclined slot A new primer may then be entered inthehead of the shell and pressed home byastud 7L2, that is secured to bark and projects downwardtherefrom,

the'end of said stud being of about the same diameter as the primer. The position of the different partsduring the operation of recap ping is shown inFig. 3.

- j The powder-cup? is formed at one side with lateral extensions. f f which are bored to provide bearings for a vertical rod m, which forms the plunger or ramrod of my device.

.This plunger is forked at its upper end to straddle the rod 71. and is secured thereto by a pin or'screw m',-which passes through a slot h in rod h. When said rod is moved longitudinally,-the plunger is not disturbed; but when the rod is raised or lowered the plunger is correspondingly moved; Plungerm is thus supported at all times in vertical alignment with an opening a in the bed a, in which the cartridge-shells are supported during the operation of reloading. The opening a may, if desired, be slightly reduced in diameter just atthe point where the endof the shell comes, so that when therod h and .the plunger 'm are forced downward to set the bullet home and the lever g crowds the-cartridge-shell upwardinto the opening-a, the end of the shell will be slightly closed or crimped 'on and around the bullet, thusservingin a measure When bar h is depressed and the to resize each shell afterloading, Such a form of opening a is shown in Figs." 6 and 7.

Means for swaging the bullet are also provided, and illustratedin said Figs. (land 7, as

follows: The hole in the slide-block 0, through whichthe plunger m passes during the act of setting the ball, is tapered slightly from the upper end, the lower portion of said hole being exactly the .size which the ball should be when swaged. When the ball is dropped into the hole and forced downward through it,

said ball is swaged down to' a size that corresponds exactly to the inner diameter of the shell, and this being performed during the act of loading no time is lostnor specialeifort required to accomplish such swaging.

Having described my invention, I claim 1.' In a reloading-tool, in combination with a bed-section, a block mounted to slide on said bed bearing a stud k to receive a cartri dge-shel-l, a decapping-piniwithinsaid stud,

as set forth, (the bed being'formedwith an inclinedwall W, on which the lower end of said decapping-pin rests,),and a'lever 72., connected with both the bed and slide-block in manner as set forth and provided with a notchv h, which is coincident with the stud when the slide-block is moved in one direction, and

with a rod or projection 78*, which is coincident with said stud when the slide b'lock is moved-in the opposite direction, all. being substantially as and for the'purposespecified.

2. In combination with a bed-section having opening to receiveja cartridge-'shfelha handled rod h, connected'with said-bed, as set forth, a longitudinally-movable plunger m,

coincident with said opening ,and comfected' to said handled rod,'and a lever g, hung at the under side of said bed, one end of said lever being-bent upward into the pathof rod h, all

being substantially as and ,'for the purpose specified.

' HENRY .J. GALLUP. Witnesses: I v

. F ANK H. ALLEN,

ALLEN 'lIENNY. 

